[ SECRET POST #3919 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3919 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Magnus Archives Podcast]


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03.
[saiyuki reload blast]


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04.
[Somali to Mori no Kami-sama]


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05.
[Christopher from an old season of Project Runway]


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06.
[Tusk]


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07.
[David Tennant and Michael Sheen in Good Omens]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 21 secrets from Secret Submission Post #561.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 (marked as Iron Fist/Luke Cage) - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/h99SXJy.png

[(Anonymous)]

Or when you go into a 1 chapter "completed" fic and then come to find out it was just a set-up for a story they never got around to actually writing. Oh the cruelty!

I also wish they had a "notify when marked complete" option for subsciptions. There's this author that writes great stories, but she updates once a week and they're like 1-2k 'chapters' that sometimes just stop in the middle of a scene. When it's all said and done the whole fic is good, but ugh those updates are painful.

[(Anonymous)]

PSA: AO3 will let you "orphan" a story, so it can be unassociated with you, if you desire to spin off a fanfic but leave it for people to read.

[kallanda_lee]

I sort of look at it differently, since a lot I read is smut, and even if unfinished, there might be a lot of juicy stuff in 15 chapters.

[rosehiptea]

I would definitely read an unfinished fic, especially one with smut, but I'd like to know in advance that that's what I'm reading.

[kallanda_lee]

That's a fair point.

[rosehiptea]

I write short one-shots, and I used to read mostly that too, until I discovered that AO3 lets me download things onto my Kindle. Sometimes I feel like I should look at the ending just to make sure there is one, but what if I don't want to know the ending?

[(Anonymous)]

do you mean the pdf download option? you're about tonchamge my world...

[rosehiptea]

You can download a pdf but if you have the Kindle specifically you can also download a .mobi file which is their standard format.

[(Anonymous)]

thanks! I didn't know that! Now i have to see how i feel about having fic in my kindle...

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I'd say that, in the absence of an "Abandoned" status, an author mentioning at the end of a chapter that they've lost interest is the next clearest thing.

(then again, I've gone back years later and finished abandoned fics, so... )

Do you ever leave a comment saying that you'd love to see the ending? Sometimes that's all it might take.

[(Anonymous)]

I've kind of abandoned a fic, but if you go into my profile, that story is listed as "on hiatus ". I've lost interest in the fandom and I had only written out a few chapters. I feel bad too. people actually liked that fic.

[seashadows]

There's a tag, "Abandoned Work - Unfinished and Discontinued," that you can use for that purpose. I've used it myself.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen some people write something in the summary to the effect that the fic is no longer being updated so you'll see that as you scroll by.

[(Anonymous)]

I really appreciate that fact on ff.net that people put [HIATUS] or [ABANDONED] before the actual summary.

I really appreciate that.

[(Anonymous)]

When they put it in the summary and not just have after you've read, like, 35 chapters, a chapter that says they're no longer writing - that's better than just nothing, but I like knowing it going in. Abandoned, on hiatus, discontinued all work for me and sometimes I'll read them, even knowing, and I might feel disappointed that it won't be finished, but I won't be deeply (and, yes, sometimes bitterly) disappointed like I have been.

I only ever search with the "completed" box ticked

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just not interested in WIPs.

Re: I only ever search with the "completed" box ticked

[(Anonymous)]

That's kind of the whole secret. That sometimes when people abandon WIPs they just mark them as complete to say they're done with them, not that the story is done.

[(Anonymous)]

Agree! 10000000x agree!